Antonyms for mess
mɛsmess

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1. • Difficulty
   • Disorderliness
   • Eat
   • Meal
   • Military
   • Nutriment

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1. mess, messiness, muss, mussinessnoun

   a state of confusion and disorderliness

   "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, peck, mint, plenty, messiness, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, hole, fix, jam, spate, muckle, pile, lot, good deal, stack, mountain, deal, pickle, untidiness, kettle of fish, muss, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, mess hall, sight, mass, mussiness, great deal, muddle, pot

2. fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fishnoun

   informal terms for a difficult situation

   "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, smother, peck, mint, crush, plenty, lot, location, locating, localisation, raft, quite a little, passel, hole, fix, mare's nest, press, jam, pile, muckle, fixture, mend, golf hole, electronic jamming, good deal, maw, fixing, mending, sight, gob, trap, deal, pickle, flock, stack, kettle of fish, fuddle, wad, messiness, hatful, mickle, hollow, heap, great deal, repair, clutter, mess hall, mass, jamming, batch, yap, mountain, welter, spate, mussiness, slew, localization, jumble, cakehole, muss, muddle, reparation, pot

3. messnoun

   soft semiliquid food

   "a mess of porridge"

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, peck, mint, plenty, messiness, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, hole, fix, jam, spate, muckle, pile, lot, good deal, stack, mountain, deal, pickle, kettle of fish, muss, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, mess hall, sight, mass, mussiness, great deal, muddle, pot

4. messnoun

   a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, peck, mint, plenty, messiness, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, hole, fix, jam, spate, muckle, pile, lot, good deal, stack, mountain, deal, pickle, kettle of fish, muss, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, mess hall, sight, mass, mussiness, great deal, muddle, pot

5. mess, mess hallnoun

   a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, peck, mint, plenty, messiness, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, hole, fix, jam, spate, muckle, pile, lot, good deal, stack, mountain, deal, pickle, kettle of fish, muss, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, mess hall, sight, mass, mussiness, great deal, muddle, pot

6. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wadverb

   (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

   "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

   Synonyms:
   push-down list, flock, destiny, bulk, cud, chaw, multitude, upsurge, atomic reactor, pile, quid, deal, spile, smokestack, caboodle, crapper, commode, throne, troop, fold, bay window, stool, softwood, chew, gage, push-down store, push-down storage, weed, hand, heap, surge, kitty, jalopy, smoke, muddle, band, lot, passel, slew, vision, freshet, potbelly, mussiness, jam, muss, hole, flowerpot, mint candy, visual modality, quite a little, clutch, luck, plentifulness, toilet, masses, ken, mess hall, down, atomic pile, messiness, the great unwashed, peck, tummy, agglomerate, sight, volume, wad, plug, mount, potty, set, nap, portion, skunk, push-down stack, chain reactor, rush, mound, good deal, big money, galvanic pile, pickle, sens, bundle, fate, voltaic pile, draw, stilt, green goddess, people, visual sense, sess, batch, view, pot, stack, bunch, spate, plenteousness, locoweed, piling, bus, bargain, mountain, survey, business deal, plenty, potentiometer, mint, dope, plentitude, cumulus, plenitude, raft, jackpot, mickle, can, big bucks, kettle of fish, mass, tidy sum, corporation, circumstances, hatful, potful, megabucks, circle, grass, great deal, trade, cumulation, fix, muckle, fortune, hoi polloi

7. messverb

   eat in a mess hall

   Synonyms:
   mess up

8. mess, mess upverb

   make a mess of or create disorder in

   "He messed up his room"

   Synonyms:
   ruffle up, spoil, bobble, bungle, bollocks, mishandle, rumple, bollix, foul up, bodge, flub, fumble, botch up, fluff, ball up, screw up, louse up, mess up, blow, bollix up, botch, ruffle, muck up, bumble, bollocks up, muff

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1. messnoun

   Synonyms:
   rations, food, mixture, medley, farrago, litter, hodgepodge, jumble, mélange

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1. MESS

   Synonyms:
   Mangled Extremity Severity Score

How to use mess in a sentence?

1. Four Rivers:

   No one dared to take over this mess, because there was so much debt.

2. Karl Kopp:

   The situation in the Berlin refugee center is a mess, people wait around all day for a number to register and then are told to come back the next day to do the same thing. They become frustrated and tensions are heightened.

3. Donald Trump:

   The reason for the plan negotiated between the Republicans and Democrats is that we need 60 votes in the Senate which are not there! We ... either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. Our country needs a good 'shutdown' in September to fix mess!

4. Christina Wingerter:

   The 'T' is a mess as it is, no way it could handle millions of people.

5. Beth Ferrier:

   My life ended the day I met Bill Cosby, because he is as powerful ... or more powerful than God. And you don't mess with God.

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